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Comment Re:Crrot and Stick (Score 1) 113

We know enough about physics to say there isn't going to be anything as impact as entering the age of stream, or the atomic age again.

Thank goodness we made those leaps in microprocessor design and software back in the 1980s. So there's no need for further incremental improvements.

Typed on my $2500 IBM PC, with 640K of memory. Using MSDOS.

Comment Re:Dumbing down (Score 1) 107

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

Comment Re:Ehhh (Score 1) 82

Blaming tech companies for Russia's evasion of sanctions seems foolish. You'd have to prove that said companies conspired with the Russian Federation to evade sanctions.

Export controls don't work this way. There is no requirement for a conspiracy and you can be held liable for looking the other way or lack of care.

Comment Re: Dumping isn’t just selling cheap / subsi (Score 1) 157

The Americans seem to have a different definition.
For example, they've had tariffs on Canadian soft wood lumber for decades due to the difference in how the lumber industry works in the 2 nations. America mostly gets its lumber from private land, while Canada, or at least BC, gets its lumber from Crown land (Provincial Crown) where the industry pays stumpage, a percent of the value, on the trees.
This they call dumping and while international tribunes have found that it isn't dumping and the tariffs are unfair, those tariffs have been their for decades, sometimes going up and sometimes going down and currently 50%. (Might be 35%)
The softwood lobby in America is strong, stronger then the house building lobby who need BC's lumber as America can't produce enough.
There's other examples of Trump's tariffs that are supposed to be about dumping such as Aluminium.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=soft...

Comment Re:Crrot and Stick (Score 2) 113

Looks at the hundreds of billions being funneled into AI research with no profit in sight

My guess: It's a scam, built on pre-existing 'bot technology.

When it's all done with, the "investors" will have a huge tax write off for their losses plus some neat new data centers, high end servers and utility resources to go into Bitcoin mining big time.

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